A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.
He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.